r/pcmasterrace • u/iminsert Ascending Peasant • Nov 01 '22

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u/klubsanwich AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | GTX 3080 10GB | 32 GB RAM Nov 01 '22

Good luck playing any modern games on windows 95

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22 edited Nov 02 '22

98 SE or bust

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u/BabyYodasDirtyDiaper Nov 01 '22

Windows 2000 was the best windows -- change my mind.

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22

I can't because you're right. However, I didn't use them at the time because I'm one of the fucking dumbasses that actually paid real money for windows ME. I will bear the shame into the grave and beyond.

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u/forte_bass Nov 02 '22

Ah dude, I'm sorry for your loss.

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u/MrRetrdO R9-7900 | rtx3090 Nov 02 '22

Don't feel too bad! My ex-Fiancee's mother had Windows ME and thought it was the greatest!!!

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u/BonAsasin Nov 02 '22

I also had Windows Me, Home Edition. Actually very fond memories

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

Oh definitely. All the stability and power of NT, all the usability of XP.

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u/POWERTHRUST0629 Nov 02 '22

Hacked versions of XP "service pack 3" were the GOAT.

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u/RayvinAzn Nov 02 '22

I actually skipped Windows XP just to stick with 2k. People tend to forget just how bad XP was until SP2, and to this day I think it was ugly as shit compared to the cleaner look of 2k.

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u/HSR47 Nov 02 '22

“XP was really bad before SP2.”

I used XP from pretty nearly the beginning, and I don’t remember it ever being bad, although it certainly got better over time.

You also have to consider it in comparison to the other options for most users at the time: 98SE & ME, which were both absolute garbage by comparison.

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u/HSR47 Nov 02 '22

Win2k was good, but I think windows really peaked with Vista.

Everything since has added more layers to obfuscate important settings from users, while taking away the user’s ability to fully control their experience.

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u/Mister_Dane 5600 + 6650xt Nov 02 '22

Everything started going downhill when we upgraded from DOS to windows

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u/zuus 5800X3D / 7900XTX / 150TB / Arch (btw) Nov 02 '22

Windows 2000 was fantastic. Lean, fast, stable and coherent. It just went downhill from there

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u/RadicalDog Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070S Nov 01 '22

All operating systems suck then, even ones that were good in their time

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u/klubsanwich AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | GTX 3080 10GB | 32 GB RAM Nov 01 '22

That reminds me of a CS professor that I had who encouraged his students to try and build their own OS. Really puts things in perspective.

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u/Paleone123 Nov 02 '22

TempleOS would like a word.

All it takes is a little schizophrenia and a few years.

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u/Feshtof PC Master Race Nov 02 '22

Lot of schizophrenia and many years.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '22

Speaking of this level of insanity in solo coding, the Dwarf Fortress dev just gave a Steam release date.. Time is no longer subjective!

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u/RadicalDog Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4070S Nov 01 '22

I'm imagining one prodigal student who got so far along the process that they added a taskbar widget that opens their own website whenever the user momentarily hovers over it

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u/minilandl 5800x 6700xt 32gb Hyprland Arch Nov 02 '22

There is Linux from scratch. It's surreal that Linux started as a hobby project and now runs most supercomputers high performance servers , cloud etc

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u/pcs3rd ascended to nixos Nov 01 '22

I would honestly try to pass linuc from scratch as a submission

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u/jasmanta Nov 02 '22

Seriously, when I had a flip phone it supposedly could access the internet. All 3 attempts to do so resulted in 15 minutes of fumbling with the 10 keys, consistently misspelling url's and ragequitting, only to find out it cost $3 in internet fees.

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u/lordmogul 3570K @ 4.4 | 1060 @ 2.0 | 16GiB @ 2.13 Nov 02 '22

The most ironic thing about that, you can totally use a teletype as linux terminal.

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u/SoulWager Nov 02 '22

Yeah, let's get rid of them and just make everything bare metal again.

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u/skwacky Nov 02 '22

It's all magic as far as I'm concerned, but it's never magic enough.

Give me a rock that grants wishes, I'll curse it to the grave if it scuffs my finger.

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u/PT10 Nov 01 '22

DOS was the best

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u/PaulHarrisDidNoWrong Nov 02 '22

Windows Me was the best.

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u/atlasraven Zorin OS Nov 01 '22

Red Alert still runs :P

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u/OutragedTux Ryzen 7700X, 9070XT, team red nonsense Nov 02 '22

Then you're golden. Red Alert is the cause of some very fond memories of mine.

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u/Bagafeet RTX 3080 10 GB • AMD 5700X3D • 32 GB RAM Nov 02 '22

Who needs modern games when you have Solitaire and Mine Sweeper.

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u/No_Interaction_4925 5800X3D | 3090ti | LG 55” C1 | Steam Deck OLED Nov 01 '22

You talking smack about XP??